Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Passengers abroad the Pink Plaisance, which landed at the port of Philadelphia; September 21, 1732

Name: Ulrich Staley, Stehli, Stiely, Stelley Religion: "Swiss Mennonite" FA1: SEP 1732 Arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Pink Plaisance". ________________________List of foreigners imported in the ship "Pink Plaisance",John Paret, Master, from Rotterdam. (Holland) Qualified Sept. 21 1732. STELLEY, Ulrich...............................32 STALLEY, Anna.................................27 STELEY, Hans Peter STELIN, Anna Barbra(Steley)______________________________________________________________________Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Name: Ulrich Steley Year: 1732 Age: 32 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1700 Place: America Family Members: Wife Anna 27; Child Hans Peter; Child Anna Barbra Source Publication Code: 8042 Primary Immigrant: Steley, Ulrich
Annotation: Date and place of arrival or settlement. Periodical
published by Pennsylvania Folklife Society, P.O. Box 92, Collegeville,
PA, 19426. Also see no. 9968 below. Source Bibliography: SCHELBERT, LEO,
and SANDRA LUEBKING. "Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated
Checklist." In Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 26:4 (Summer 1977), pp. 2-24.
Page: 20Much of the background of the Mennonite movement is to be
traced directly to Switzerland. This movement was active back in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and records indicate attempts to root
these people out because of their refusal to bear arms, a trait they
adhere to today with all the tenacity they can command.The government in time of war can make Mennonite and Amish boys rake leaves, but can't get them to bear arms!Mennonite communities had existed in the Palatinate since
1527, and to these places like-believers in Switzerland would flee
across frontiers; by 1671 a considerable emigration took place when
seven hundred persons left their native home to settle on the banks of
the Rhine.We are now approaching the time when these early
Mennonite settlers in the Palatinate and the newcomers agreed to help
their compatriots in Switzerland who left there in after
years--willingly, or otherwise. They finally found themselves under such
a heavy yoke that they decided on a large movement of their people to
America, and the settlement at Pequea, in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, resulted.Zurich and Berne, in Switzerland,
published decrees forbidding emigration, the latter city rescinding a
policy previously planned, for a Swiss colony to settle in Georgia, and
up through the Carolinas.The main reasons for emigration from
Europe to America, by the Germans, motivated and included also the
Huguenots; the latter got into this picture by reason of the Revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV, in France, in 1685, when many of
France's most substantial citizens went to Holland, Germany and
Switzerland, all in fear of their lives.In connection with the
subject of enforced slavery it may be noted that Huguenots from France
were likewise sold as galley slaves. In 1896, Henry S. Dotterer, editor
of "Historical Notes Relating to the Pennsylvania Reformed Church," was
making some researches in the archives of Dordrecht, Holland. Here he
discovered a printed list of Huguenot galley slaves who had been
released by order of Louis XIV of France, on condition that they leave
the realm.Lancaster PennsylvaniaWherever there was limestone or black walnut trees, there you
would soon find Germans either farming, or setting up a home prior to
turning the soil, for they liked limestone. This for the reason it made
fine stone for building homes and churches, as well as lime for
fertilizer. Walnut trees growing in healthy stands were also a good sign
of fertility of the soil.Lands Quickly Taken Up.-Once
the lands on the east side of the Susquehanna were well taken up, the
movements went to the west, and to the north, York and Cumberland timber
falling early under the axe of the pioneer farmer and woodsman. The
spread was not long in coming, once the troubles with the Indians were
controlled.The Revolution was to prove that the Germans were loyal to
the land they had come to populate and to cultivate. And if they fought
against the principles and demands of the English crown, they did it
alongside hardlaced and stiffbacked Presbyterians whose veins were
filled with blood like that of the enemy they fought.

But you must
give the Germans their due: they were not among the last to fight--but
among the first. It was not the Mennonite who fought with ball and
musket--he fought with the plow. Others of his countrymen who had no
scruples about "bearing arms" were the ones who went out with Washington
to wallop the would-be "tax-leviers." Those who did not fight
were self-sustaining and self-sufficient, and their efforts at farming
and making warm clothing, and those who made shot and shell, contributed
no little in making a revolution of the people an American independence
indeed. In this group of arrivals after 1710, there must be
noted that a number of Pennsylvania Germans under the leadership of Jost
Hite, moved down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, to settle the
counties of Frederick, Rockingham and Shenandoah. The west- ern part of
North Carolina had a large number of such settlers emigrate from
Pennsylvania. The French and Indian War was still simmering when some
Pennsylvania Germans went to Ohio, to be followed bv larger numbers at
the close of the Revolution. Then to Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas, Texas, California, etc.People in those states to the west
of us probably feel that they are "Westerners," but would it be
improper to say that they are in a large sense "Western Pennsylvania
Germans?" or "Pennsylvania Germans in the West?" The Pennsylvania German farers were good farmers by
practically all standards. They were descended through thirty
generations of tillers of the soil. All things being equal in their Old
World haunts they would have been on the average well-to-do. But the
wars kept them poor, or, if they were on the wrong side of the political
or religious "fence" they again were likely to be mulct of what they
had.Travel, being what it was in those days, was expensive, and the more
so because unscrupulous ship owners found they could get the price,
either from the pioneer or some one who would pay for this passage. Those
who undertook to pay off their passage under a bond which sometimes
took twenty years to redeem, would be termed "redemptioners." This took
on a form of "white servitude" in the early days, and much of interest
may be read about the subject.Fine Soil Ready in Pennsylvania. -
It has been pointed out that the situation greeting the newcomers was
pretty nearly made to order. There was little barrenness; fertilization
was not necessary in the same degree that it was in Germany, where
tilling for many years required more attention.The farmers were
smart enough to rotate their crops; they grazed cattle for fattening and
got back fertilizer quite precious. They fed their horses well, so that
they could do twice as much work in a day as horses underfed; they were
kept warm in winter, and were excused from doing extra work, such as
dragging logs, or pleasure driving."Swiss Barns" Erected. -
The early pioneers first cleared sufficient land to get a start on
farming; then came an immense barn, well built, of the "Swiss" type. The
first barns were built of logs. Later there were some of stone, then
frame or brick. Interesting features of some of the barns included the
stars on the sides and ends; also the ventilator designs obtained by
omissions of bricks which formed the designs, or cut-outs in the odd
shapes of hearts, diamonds, quarter-moons, clubs, etc.Most barns
were double-deckers, and allowed for threshing-floors, mows and lofts
for storing bay. The complete barns had a granary on the upper floor, a
cellar under the drive-way, in addition to the usual stalls for horses
and cattle. They ranged from 50 to 60 feet wide, and 60 to 120 feet
long, with an overhang of 8 to 10 feet beyond the stable doors.Originally
barns and houses had thatched roofs; in later years they were shingled,
slated, or tinned. If painted, it generally was of deep red, for
lasting qualities.Lumber could be obtained on the spot; likewise
good building stone might be found nearby, needing but the blows of the
stone mason to dress them for use. But it might be a decade or two until
they got around to the building of a substantial house. Houses built by
the poineers were generally of logs, if the builder was pioneering some
miles away from centers of population. These could be built in a few
days after a clearing was made.Two-story houses were the general
rule at the out- set, with the familiar two-and-a-half-story to follow.
The first with pitched roof, and with cornices run across the gables and
around the first story.Types of Construction. -
The English and Scotch fashion was to build the chimney at the
gable-end, but the German style was to bring it right up through the
center of the house. Most of them seemed to be spacious, with open
fire-places in most rooms, and with deep-set window and door frames.
Window weights were used quite early.Travelers usually note on
these older houses the odd inscriptions, verses, dates or initials found
well up on the gable wall. This is a hangover from customs in Germany
and Switzerland.There are many variations held by people today as
to the meanings of the decorations on barns, cer- tain markings found
here and there on houses and necessary outbuildings; even on cooking
utensils, etc. Gaudy Colors and Designs. - It
will hardly suffice to say that the farmer liked to have his barn look
attractive, and to be in good state of repair, as a sign of his progress
and success; nor that his wife was odd, in that she had a lot of dishes
with gaudy decorations of birds, flowers, alphabets, scenes and verses
painted thereon; nor that the good housewife had these same decorations
on her bed linens, and her furniture as well.Most of the
decorative schemes came from the Old World, a throw-off, or hand-me-down
from ancient Persian and Chinese ideas. We are informed that German
houses today have on their walls counterparts of many of the ideas
expressed by our own native artists with a slight touch or blend of
native instinct which do not in the least detract from the value or
interest of the items in question.The farmers were not alone the
great builders. We had the well-known preachers and teachers; scientists
and astronomers; inventors and many others. A catalog of German firsts
in Pennsylvania is an imposing array of talent and accomplishment.German Language Remained with Newcomer. -
Of the language and literature of the Pennsylvania Germans we had at
best be brief-the students and scholars are still trying to define and
settle the matter.The remarkable thing about the "dialect" as it
is called, is that there should remain so much of it in use today in
sections where there is likewise an abundant use of English. Two hundred
years ago there was every reason for them to continue using the only
language they knew. With all the intermarriages of these people with
English, Scotch and Irish families, the "Dutch" will "out."From
the days of their residence in Europe, until comparatively modern times
they have been without the benefit of any grammar or book of guidance
for the use of the "dialect" conversation on the street or in the home.Early Printers. -
The Pennsylvania Germans had printing shops in operation in larger
centers of population almost as soon at they could get the material to
set up shop.Thus the press of Christopher Sauer had printed three
editions of the Bible, complete, in little Germantown, before there was
one edition of the same book printed in Philadelphia in English. A few
years before his first Bible Sauer had printed a large hymn-book
entitled "Zionitischer Wayrauchshugel," containing 654 hymns in 33
divisions. Conrad Beissel and his Ephrata "Breuderschaft" were
responsible for the publishing of a number of remarkable books for those
times, including a complete translation of Van Bragt's "Blutige
Schauplatz oder Martyrer Spiegel" in German from the Holland Dutch, at
the Cloisters, at Ephrata. Fifteen men worked for three years to
complete translations, make the paper and print and bind this massive
work, up to that time about the largest single book published in the New
World.Education was at first frowned on by the farmers who
thought their children needed little more than to be able to read and
*rite and figure a little bit. In later years they found that education
was the best bet, and with the exception of the Amish, most other
denominations and sects have gone over to college education. The
German language, or dialect as it is more familiarly known, gave way in
part to English as the official language of the Commonwealth in 1836.
But it did not "give way" in many homes, and towns!Variety of Faiths: -
The religious background and life of the Germans is varied, to say the
least. We have little space to detail them at length, but separate ac-
counts may be found in libraries for particular readers.The German Baptists, or Brethren,
are a denomination of Christians who emigrated to this country from
Germany between the years 1718 and 1730; they are commonly called
Dunkers; but they have assumed for themselves the name of "Brethren."The United Brethren in Christ came
into activity in the United States about 1755, differing in name from
the Moravians, or Unitas Fratrum, (or United Brethren's Church) by
adding "in Christ." The former mentioned denomination enjoys a healthy
membership scattered throughout the country.The Moravians (Unitas Fratrum),
or United Brethren's Church, dates from 1722, descendants of the
Bohemian and Moravian Brethren who were persecuted in their native
country, and who founded a colony under the patronage of Count
Zinzendorf, on an estate of his in Upper Lusatia. American history is
replete with accounts of activities of the Count, and David Zeisberger,
who labored among and learned so much from his association with Indian
tribes. Their establishments in the early days were primarily at
Bethlehem, Nazareth and. Lititz.The Schwenkfelders take
their name from Casper Schwenkfeld von Ossing, who was born seven years
after Martin Luther, with whom he had manv disagreements. This
denomination arrived in Philadelphia on September 22, 1734, settling
principally in Montgomery, Berks, Bucks and Lehigh counties.Ephrata Cloister.
- One of the most notable of the early pietist movements was this
Ephrata community, under Conrad Beissel, who was born in Eberbach, in
1690. He was a baker, as was his father. He came to America in 1720,
becoming a hermit on the Cocalico. Others built cabins around him and
imitated his ascetic life. But any religion that prohibits race
propagation soon eliminates itself.

Monday, December 17, 2012

We have a strong connection to the French Huguenots in both the Lute tree and the Bramblett tree.

Nicholas Martiau, a French Huguenot, had lived some period of time in
England before being naturalized as an Englishman and sailing for
Virginia. He had been born in France according to his own statement in
the records of the General Court of Virginia and furthermore is believed
to have been a protestant as the records of the French Huguenot
congregation in London show him to have been a godfather at a baptism
there in May 1615.

Martiau arrived in Virginia in 1620. The records of the Virginia
Company show that by February 1620 the colony had requested that
engineers be sent out who were capable of raising fortifications. The
Earl of Huntington, who had an interest in lands in the colony, engaged
at his own expense two engineers, one a captain from the low countries
named Benjamin Blewitt and the other a reputedly skilled French captain who had been long in England, Nicholas Martiau.
Huntington specifically engaged them to act as his attorneys in
establishing his lands in Virginia. To that end he saw that Martiau was
naturalized, a necessary qualification to own land, vote, or hold office
in the colony, and he also provided him with a life interest in some
lands of the Huntington estate.

Martiau arrived on the Francis Bona Ventura
in August 1620. After the Indian massacre in March 1622 he commanded a
company which sought out and fought the Indians. For a while after that
he was at Falling Creek where the colony's iron works had been destroyed
and the population devastated in the massacre. From there in 1623 he
testified to the exemplary services of Doctor Ed Giften. In 1623 he was a
member of the House of Burgesses that signed the completed draft of the
First Laws made by the Assembly in Virginia. By the time of the census
of 1624, Blewitt was no longer in the Virginia records and Capt Nicholas
Martiau of Elizabeth City was the Earl's sole attorney in Virginia. In
1625 he appears in the muster as Captain Martiau, age 33.

In March 1623, the Commissioners sent from London to investigate
conditions in Virginia questioned where the colony should be fortified,
and received from the Assembly the answer that the best defense against
Indians would be a 6 mile palisade from Martin's Hundred to Chiskiacke,
the future site of Yorktown. In 1630 Governor Harvey and the council
voted lands for those who would settle in the first two years in Chiskiacke and upon completion of the palisade Martiau was among those
who moved their families to Chiskiacke. In 1632 as a burgess from
Chiskiacke and the Isle of Kent, he signed the petition to the crown for
confirmation of the title to all of the colonists' lands. Martiau's
plantation eventually included 1300 acres among which is the site of
Yorktown today.

As a prominent public figure Martiau appears frequently in the records
thereafter. He was elected burgess from Chiskiacke and the Isle of Kent
in 1632 and was a justice of York County from 1633 until his death,
often holding meetings of the court in his home. In the prelude to the
famous "Thrusting out of Sir John Harvey", a challenge to autocratic
rule, Nicholas Martiau was one of three speakers who by their opposition
forced the governor to return to London to report to the king. At two
other times occasions arose requiring Martiau to prove his loyalty to
the crown: in 1627 he was required by the General Court to take the
"Oath of Supremacy", and in 1656 it was recorded in Northampton County
that "Captain Nicholas Martiau obtained his denizenation in England and
could hold any office or employment in Virginia."

Little is known about Martiau's wife. In a letter dated December 1625
written in Elizabeth City and addressed to the Earl of Huntington
Martiau announces himself as a husband and a father of "little ones".
His wife, Jane, of unknown surname had apparently arrived on the Sea Flower
in 1621, then been married to Lieutenant Bartley, and widowed by 1625.
She in turn appears to have died before 1640. There is some supposition
that there had been a first wife before Mrs. Bartley.

There was a third marriage before November 1646 to a widow, Isabella Beech, who apparently died before Martiau died about 1657.
Nicholas Martiau was survived by three daughters of his second
marriage: Elizabeth married to Colonel George Read, Mary married to
Colonel John Scasbrook, and Sarah married to Captain William Fuller, the
Puritan Governor of Maryland under the Commonwealth.

References: 1. "Nicholas Martiau: The Adventurous Huguenot, The Military Engineer and The Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington", by John Baer Stoudt, Norristown, PA, 1932

History of French Huguenots

The Huguenots were French Protestants most of whom eventually came to
follow the teachings of John Calvin, and who, due to religious
persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some remained, practicing their
Faith in secret.The Protestant Reformation began by Martin Luther
in Germany about 1517, spread rapidly in France, especially among those
having grievances against the established order of government. As
Protestantism grew and developed in France it generally abandoned the
Lutheran form, and took the shape of Calvinism. The new "Reformed
religion" practiced by many members of the French nobility and social
middle-class, based on a belief in salvation through individual faith
without the need for the intercession of a church hierarchy and on the
belief in an individual's right to interpret scriptures for themselves,
placed these French Protestants in direct theological conflict with both
the Catholic Church and the King of France in the theocratic system
which prevailed at that time. Followers of this new Protestantism were
soon accused of heresy against the Catholic government and the
established religion of France, and a General Edict urging extermination
of these heretics (Huguenots) was issued in 1536. Nevertheless,
Protestantism continued to spread and grow, and about 1555 the first
Huguenot church was founded in a home in Paris based upon the teachings
of John Calvin. The number and influence of the French Reformers
(Huguenots) continued to increase after this event, leading to an
escalation in hostility and conflict between the Catholic Church/State
and the Huguenots. Finally, in 1562, some 1200 Huguenots were slain at
Vassey, France, thus igniting the French Wars of Religion which would
devastate France for the next thirty-five years.The Edict of
Nantes, signed by Henry IV in April, 1598, ended the Wars of Religion,
and allowed the Huguenots some religious freedoms, including free
exercise of their religion in 20 specified towns of France.The
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in October, 1685, began
anew persecution of the Huguenots, and hundreds of thousands of
Huguenots fled France to other countries. The Promulgation of the Edict
of Toleration in November, 1787, partially restored the civil and
religious rights of Huguenots in France.Since the Huguenots of
France were in large part artisans, craftsmen, and professional people,
they were usually well-received in the countries to which they fled for
refuge when religious discrimination or overt persecution caused them to
leave France. Most of them went initially to Germany, the Netherlands,
and England, although some found their way eventually to places as
remote as South Africa. Considerable numbers of Huguenots migrated to
British North America, especially to the Carolinas, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and New York. Their character and talents in the arts,
sciences, and industry were such that they are generally felt to have
been a substantial loss to the French society from which they had been
forced to withdraw, and a corresponding gain to the communities and
nations into which they settled.

Origin of the Word HuguenotThe exact origin of the word Huguenot is
unknown, but many consider it to be a combination of Flemish and
German. Protestants who met to study the Bible in secret were called Huis Genooten, meaning "house fellows." They were also referred to as Eid Genossen,
or "oath fellows" meaning persons bound by an oath. Two possible but
different derivations incorporating this concept can be found in the Encyclopedia Britannica:

1. "Huguenot",
according to Frank Puaux, at one time President of the Socitie
Francaise de l'Historie du Protestantisme Francais and author of the
article about the Huguenots in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica:

"is
the name given from about the middle of the sixteenth century to the
Protestants of France. It was formerly explained as coming from the
German Eldgenosen, the designation of the people of Geneva at the
time when they were admitted to the Swiss Confederation. This
explanation is now abandoned. The words Huguenot, Huguenots, are old French words, common in fourteenth and fifteenth-century charters. As the Protestants called the Catholics papistes, so the Catholics called the protestantshuguenots.
The Protestants at Tours used to assemble by night near the gate of
King Hugo, whom the people regarded as a spirit. A monk, therefore, in a
sermon declared that the Lutherans ought to be called Huguenots,
as kinsmen of King Hugo, inasmuch as they would only go out at night as
he did. This nickname became popular from 1560 onwards, and for a long
time the French Protestants were always known by it."

2. The current edition Encyclopedia Britannica offers a somewhat different explanation, although agreeing the word is a derivative of the German word Eldgenosen:

"The origin of the name is uncertain, but it appears to have come from the word aignos, derived from the German Eldgenosen (confederates
bound together by oath), which used to describe, between 1520 and 1524,
the patriots of Geneva hostile to the duke of Savoy. The spelling Huguenot may have been influenced by the personal nameHugues, "Hugh"; a leader of the Geneva movement was one Besancon Hugues (d. 1532)."

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Sir Edward Dymoke was sheriff of the county of Lincoln in
the life-time of his father, anno 1536; an office which he also filled
in the 1st Edward VI [1547] and 2nd and 3rd of Philip and Mary [1555 and
1556], as well as in that of Queen Elizabeth, he was repeatedly
returned as one of this county's representatives to parliament.He officiated
as Champion at the coronations of Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen
Elizabeth.

Dymoke,
the name of an English family holding the office of king's champion.
The functions of the champion were to ride into Westminster Hall at the
coronation banquet, and challenge all comers to impugn the kings title.
The earliest record of the ceremony at the coronation of an English king
dates from the accession of Richard II. On this occasion the champion
was Sir John Dymoke (d. 1381), who held the manor of
Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, in right of his wife Margaret, granddaughter
of Joan Ludlow, who was the daughter and co-heiress of Philip Marmion,
last Baron Marmion. The Marmions claimed descent from the lords of Fontenay,
hereditary champions of the dukes of Normandy, and held the castle of
Tamworth, Leicestershire, and the manor of Scrivelsby. The right to the
championship was disputed with the Dymoke family by Sir Baldwin de
Freville, lord of Tamworth, who was descended from an elder daughter of
Philip Marmion. The court of claims eventually decided in favor of the
owners of Scrivelsby on the ground that Scrivelsby was held in grand
serjeanty, that is, that its tenure was dependent on, rendering a
special service, in this case the championship.

Sir Thomas Dymoke (1428?-1471) joined a Lancastrian rising in 1469, and, with his brother-in-law Richard,
Lord Willoughby and Welles, was beheaded in 1471 by order of Edward IV
after he had been induced to leave sanctuary on a promise of personal
safety. The estates were restored to his son Sir Robert Dymoke
(d. 1546), champion at the coronations of Richard III, Henry VII, and
Henry VIII, who distinguished himself at the Siege of Tournai and became
treasurer of the kingdom. His descendants acted as champions at
successive coronations. After the coronation of George IV the ceremony
was allowed to lapse, but at the coronation of King Edward VIIH. S. Dymoke bore the standard of England in Westminster Abbey. Complete Peerage, The

Following the ceremony in Westminster Abbey the Coronation procession
of King George IV now wearing his crown wended its way to Westminster
Hall on the raised and canopied processional way. " The awning over the
platform on which the Coronation procession is to pass, is of Russia
duck, and 2,000,000 yds. will be required to complete it." Crowds lined
the streets to watch the parade pass. Wealthy spectators could book
seats on platforms erected for the occasion. " Ten thousand Guineas were
given by a person for the fronts of four houses, in Palace-yard, to
hire for seeing the Coronation. He must have lost considerably, as
places were to be had on the day so low as ten shillings and sixpence
and even seven shillings and Sixpence." Soldiers both on foot and on
horseback lined the route.

The coronation dinner was held in the huge 290 by 68 foot Westminster
Hall. The mediaeval banqueting Hall dating from 1099 is topped by a
magnificent oak hammer beam ceiling. The King was escorted to his place
by the Barons of the Cinque Ports who traditionally have the right to
hold the canopy over the king on the occasion of the Coronation
Processions. Once the King was seated the Lord High Constable, the Lord
High Steward and the Deputy Earl Marshal rode into the hall on
horseback. The Deputy Earl Marshal had difficulty with his horse and
swore at the animal in a voice that resounded through Westminster Hall.
The Hereditary Champion, a member of the family of Dymoke of Scrivelsby,
in full armor rode a horse into the Coronation Banquet in Westminster
Hall to throw down his gauntlet and challenge anyone to deny the new
sovereign.

The
rider was actually the son of the hereditary Champion as Rev. John
Dymoke thought it incompatible with his profession as a clergyman to
appear as an armored Champion. The family, perhaps forewarned by the
problems of previous Champions, took the precaution of borrowing a white
horse from Astley's circus for the ceremony. The animal was well used
to enclosed spaces and crowds and the Champion's part of the ceremony
went off perfectly. After no one had taken up the Gauntlet, George IV
drank to the Champion from a gold cup. It was passed to the Champion,
Henry Dymoke (1801-1865), who also drank from it and then took it away
as his rightful trophy of the day. This ceremony ceased after George
IV's coronation in 1821. Then it was the turn of the peers and bishops
at the long tables to drink his Majesty's health followed by the
customary rounds of cheering. The King stood up to thank them for their
good wishes and to do them " the honour of drinking their health and
that of his good people" . The Earl of Denbigh wrote, " It exceeded all
imagination and conception. Picture to yourself Westminster Hall lined
beneath with the peers in their robes and coronets, the Privy
Councilors, Knights of the Bath, and a multitude of different attendants
and chief officers of State in most magnificent dress, and with a
double row of galleries on each side above, filled with all the beauty
of London, the ladies vying with each other in the magnificence of their
apparel and the splendor of their head-dresses. Some of them being
literally a blaze of diamonds."

Sir Edward Dymoke is the Great Grandfather of George Washington, our first president.

The Manor of Scrivelsby, part of
Scrivelby civil parish, is in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire,
England, 2 miles (3.2 km) south from Horncastle and on the B1183 road 1
mile (1.6 km) east from the A153 road. The manor is held by grand
serjeanty,[1] a form of tenure which requires the performance of a
service rather than a money payment – in this case as the King or
Queen's Champion.[1] Scrivelsby appears in the Domesday Book as
"Scrivelesbi".[2] It comprised 89 households, 16 villagers, 11
smallholders and 30 freemen, with 8.5 ploughlands, a meadow of 5 acres
(0.020 km2), woodland of 100 acres (0.40 km2), a mill and a church. In
1086 lordship of the manor and tenancy-in-chief was transferred to
Robert the bursar,[3] alternatively Robert De Spencer,[4] but shortly
after the Conquest it was given to Robert De Marmyion, Lord of
Fountenay, on condition that he accept the office of King's Champion.[4]
The manor house, Scrivelsby Court, was burnt out in 1761,[6] and was
demolished between 1955 and 1957.[6] However the gatehouse was retained
and restored in 1959.[6] The west front is predominately 15- and
16th-century, with the rest, being Georgian and later.[6] It is a Grade I
listed building.[7] The Lion Gateway was built around 1530 and was
rebuilt in 1833.[6][8] It is Grade II* listed.[8]

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Anne Tailboys Dymoke, brought more royal ancestry to
our tree. She was descended from two sons of King Edward III, Lionel,
Duke of Clarence and John, Duke of Clarence.Americans of
Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose
Lineage is Traced to the Legimate Issue of Kings"; By Charles Henry
Browning; Published by Porter & Costes, 1891.

Frances
was born 1550 Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, England, d. c1611. She married
Thomas WINDEBANK, lord of the Manor of Haines Hall, Berks, England, in
Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, England. He was knighted in 1603. Farnham,
George F. - "Quorndon records", printed in London: Mitchell Hughes and
Clarke, 1912, page 345: "The late Queen Elizabeth, being thus seised of
the said Reversion, did by indenture date 12th Feb 1583 (26 Elizabeth)
grant unto the said Thomas Windebanke, for a term of 30 years, to begin
at the expiration of the said lease at the former reserved rent of
41pounds 4sterling."
http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/family/Lewis_&_Clark/Lewis.html -

Frances Dymoke was the daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, Knight and Anne
Tailboys. She married Sir Thomas Windebank, Knight, b. January 20,
1547/48, d. October 24, 1607, a son of Richard Windebank and Margaret
verch Griffith, on 20 August 1566. She died after 3 March 1611.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Mildred was Robert's
third wife, married 31/7/1600. "Robert Reade married (third), in 1600,
at St. Martins-in-the-field, London, Mildred Windebank, daughter of Sir
Thomas Windebank, of Haines Hall, Parish of Hurst, Berkshire, who was
clerk of the signet to Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Sir Thomas
Windebank married Lady Frances Dymoke, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, of
Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire, Hereditary Championn of England, and
his wife, Lady Anne Talbois. Lady Frances Dymoke was of most
distinguished lineage, as she was descended in three ways from King
Edward I: from the Percys, Earls of Northumberland; the de Veres of
Runnymede fame; and from Robert Marmyun, Lord of Castle Fontenaye in
Normandy. Robert Marmyun accompanied William the Conquerer to England
and was the Champion in full armor at the coronation of William and
Matilda. He received the lands and Manor of Scrivelsby as a gift from
William on the special condition that he and his heirs should perform
the office of Champions to Sovereigns of England, a custom which was
followed until the last two coronations. The Marmyun line died out with
Lady Joan, but her daughter, Margaret Ludlow, married Sir John Dymoke,
and this office continued in the Dymokke family. There are still extant a
number of autographed letters from the Sovereigns of England to these
Champions. Scrivelsby Court itself has a distinction, as it is the
"Locksley Hall" of Tennyson's poems."

Mildred married Robert Reade Esq.-[18565] [MRIN:6357] on 7-31-1600 in St. Martin, Westminster, Lindon. Robert was born in 1551 in Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England and died after 12-10-1626 in Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England.

Frances Dymoke252,

Ann Tailboys235,

Elizabeth Gascoigne218,

Margaret Percy200,

Henry de Percy IX184,

Eleanor de Neville161,

Joan de Beaufort141,

Duke John of Lancaster "of Gaunt"114,

King Edward Plantagenet III95,

King Edward Plantagenet II82,

King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"72,

King Henry III Plantagenet69,

King John Plantagenet "Lackland"66,

King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"52,

Queen Matilda Adelaide of England45,

Henry I (King)21,

William I "the Conqueror" (King)11,

Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)6,

Richard "the Good" II (Duke)3,

Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)2,

William I "Longsword" (Duke)1) was born c1584 in England and died c1630 in Virginia at age 46.

Mildred married Robert Reade Esq.-[18565]
[MRIN:6357] on 7-31-1600 in St. Martin, Westminster, Lindon. Robert was
born in 1551 in Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England and died after
12-10-1626 in Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England.

Mildred
was Robert's third wife, married 31/7/1600. "Robert Reade married
(third), in 1600, at St. Martins-in-the-field, London, Mildred
Windebank, daughter of Sir Thomas Windebank, of Haines Hall, Parish of
Hurst, Berkshire, who was clerk of the signet to Queen Elizabeth and
King James I. Sir Thomas Windebank married Lady Frances Dymoke, daughter
of Sir Edward Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire, Hereditary
Championn of England, and his wife, Lady Anne Talbois. Lady Frances
Dymoke was of most distinguished lineage, as she was descended in three
ways from King Edward I: from the Percys, Earls of Northumberland; the
de Veres of Runnymede fame; and from Robert Marmyun, Lord of Castle
Fontenaye in Normandy. Robert Marmyun accompanied William the Conquerer
to England and was the Champion in full armor at the coronation of
William and Matilda. He received the lands and Manor of Scrivelsby as a
gift from William on the special condition that he and his heirs should
perform the office of Champions to Sovereigns of England, a custom which
was followed until the last two coronations. The Marmyun line died out
with Lady Joan, but her daughter, Margaret Ludlow, married Sir John
Dymoke, and this office continued in the Dymokke family. There are still
extant a number of autographed letters from the Sovereigns of England
to these Champions. Scrivelsby Court itself has a distinction, as it is
the "Locksley Hall" of Tennyson's poems."From: http://www.geocities.com/awoodlief/reade.html Robert Reade (--by 12/1626) & Mildred Windebank

Margaret
Miller Reid was born 1644 in Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.
She married John Reid 29 Sep 1678. She was the mother of Anne Reid born
24 Jan 1679. Margaret came to the New World with her husband and three
children in 1683 settling in New Jersey.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

George Reade Esq. was one of the more colorful early colonists in New
England, integrally bound up in the early politics, as well as being an
ancestor of George Washington. His lineage has been thoroughly
researched by US historians, because of his pivotal role in US history.

George Reade, a native of London, came to Virginia
1637 in Sir John Harvey's party. Harvey was returning to Virginia to
assume the office of Governor of the Colony. Reade was appointed
Secretary of State, pro tem of the colony in 1640 and served as Acting
Governor in the absence of Governor Harvey. He was a member of the
House of Burgesses and a member of the Colonial Council until his
death. His will, no longer extant, is documented in a York County 18th
century land transaction.

York Co, VA Deeds & Bonds Book 5 pp 3 - 6 This
Indenture made the sixteenth day of May in the fortieth year of the
Reign of our Sovernge Lord George the Second King of Great Britain and
in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & forty
one between James Mitchell of the Town & County of York and Janet
his wife of the one part and Richard Ambler of the same Town &
county aforesaid . Whereas George Reade late of the sd county of York
Esq decd being siezed in fee of a certain tract or parcel of land lying
& being in the said County of York containing by Estimation Eight
hundred & fifty acres did by his last Will and Testament in writing
bearing date the twenty ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord
One thousand six hundred & Seventy devise the same by the name of
all that Tract of Land wherein he lived to his wife during life and
after her decease to be equally divided between his sons, George &
Robert and the heirs of their bodies but and fault of such heirs in
either or both of them or in case either or both of them should dye
during their minority then he gave and devises his and their parts of
the land aforesaid to his sons Francis and Benjamin and the heirs of
their bodies with other remainders over as by the said Will duly proved
in the General Court of this Colony being thereunto had may more at
large appear and whereas the said George Reade one of the sons of the
Testator dyed many years ago without issue and after his death the said
Francis & Benjamin Reade intend into one ninety or half part of this
premises to as afore devised and afterwards the said Robert Reade,
Francis Reade & Benjamin Reade by Deed bearing date the twelfth day
of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand and six hundred &
eighty eight made partition of the premises aforesaid .........

George
Reade married Elizabeth Martiau, daughter of Nicolas Martiau (Father of
Yorktown). Their daughter Mildred, wife of Col. Augustine Warner, was
the g-grandmother of George Washington. George
Read, the son of Robert Read of London and his wife Mildred Windebank,
was one of the about one hundred colonists, who emigrated to the
colonies from England and Wales before the end of the 17th century,
known to have legitimate descent from a Plantagenet King of England. The
illustrious ancestry of George Reade is documented nicely in Colonial
Records during the period of 18 January 1638/9 - 11 December 1641. The
file includes letters from the Colonial Governor, Secretary of State and
George Reade to Sir Francis Windebank and/or Windebank's personal
secretary Robert Reade (George Reade's brother.) The correspondence
file is quite interesting, alluding to the politics behind George
Reade's appointment as Secretary of State during Richard Kemp's sojourn
in England. It also includes personal requests from George Reade to his
brother for servants and money. Earlier correspondence puts a personal
face on George Reade's life. "Sir John Harvey to Robert Reade, 17 Nov.
1637. Hopes to employ Reade's brother against the Indians. He is well
and stays at the writer's house." "George Reade to Robert Reade, his
brother, 26 Febr. 1637/8. Does not think much of Mr. Hawley. Thanks to
the support of the Governor and Mr. Kemp, the writer has survived. Mr.
Menephe has brought many servants. Mr. Hawley has promised the writer
that the next lot of servants coming to Virginia would be for him but he
does not believe it as Hawley is in Maryland."

"Adventurers
of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the
Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp.
419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church
tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife
Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered
during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both
were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct.
1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be
1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in
error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states
she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her
age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the
age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his
daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born
prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth
occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."

The graves of
George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on
Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had
the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal
Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas
Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather
(who married a George Reade descendant.)